But, did you catch any walleyes?
Sorry had to let the tears clear from my eyes from laughing. Night crank’n from 830 to midnight yielded about all the walleyes a guy would want to catch. I’ve got about a dozen new gill slices in my hands plus all the new bleeding cracks from constant wet/dry in the cold. Can barely hold a steering wheel to drive.
Daytime was a very different story. Most consistent was sweeping blades behind obstructions. Caught very few eyes or sauger on plastics. With about a 40K flow, 3/8 blades in purple/orange or white pink for suager and 1/2 oz (large profile) in Pearl or Pink/Purple two tone blades for eyes. Ironically, the majority of eater eyes we kept were plump full of 3″ perch – yet, nothing aggressive on firetiger or perch pattern hair.
I got two piggies for the couple nights of effort. 27+” plump full of spawn and a 30+” that was nearly spawned out. But to me the true highlight (besides the time with my brother) was popping this beautiful brown. Per total of man hours fished on the river, trout are very rare and far and few in between. I’ll be very lucky to catch a couple more in the rest of my life. (on the Mississippi river)
Daytime on structure produced tons of dinks. 9″ sauger to 14″ eyes. Better fish on the edges of the channel. But about 45 minutes after dark, a couple rocky shelves and clam bed came to life with a lot of 17-18 males. Also caught a few 18-20″ females that still had spawn. The 27″ breeched the surface to hit a J7 that I was lifting up to cast again in about 4fow. That made for some excitement with only having 18″ of line out from the tip when it hit.
Not much in the way of pics. Just had my phone and i had no intent of taking it out in the rain or while was by myself – big fish selfies never turn out
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